Champagne Chicken Breasts Recipes

Steps:

• Pound chicken breasts to even thickness. Sprinkle with 1/2T lemon juice and pepper to your liking.
• Melt 2T butter and olive oil. Saute chicken. About 2 minute on each side until nicely browned. Remove from pan.
• In the same pan, melt 2T butter and saute shallots until translucent. Add garlic, scraping up brown bits from bottom of pan.
• Pur in chicken stock, champagne and remainder lemon juice. Bring to a boil and reduce to thin glaze. Add cream and boil for 6 minute until thick.
• Return chicken to pan and heat through. Sprinkle with chopped chives.
• Serve with white rice, wild rice or spinach fettecini.

Steps:

• Lightly dust chicken breasts with flour and a little salt and pepper.
• In a large skillet, lightly brown chicken breasts to a nice golden brown in olive oil. Once browned on both sides, add mushrooms and champagne. Cook over medium heat, champagne should boil a little, for approximately 1/2 hour. When chicken is tender, transfer chicken to a platter.
• Pour cream into skillet. Simmer about 5 minutes, until slightly thickened. Pour sauce over chicken breasts. Serve.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat and cook onions until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chicken and carrots and cook until chicken is browned on all sides and carrots are tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Pour in champagne and simmer until alcohol has evaporated, 3 to 5 minutes. Add cream and chicken base and simmer until sauce has thickened, 10 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Cook garlic in oil until tender. Place chicken in the skillet, and cook about 10 minutes on each side, until no longer pink and juices run clear.
• Drain oil from skillet. Sprinkle chicken with paprika and 1 cup brown sugar. Pour red wine around chicken. Cover, and simmer about 15 to 20 minutes; lightly baste chicken with wine sauce while cooking. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Steps:

• Mix 1/4 cup flour, 1 teaspoons salt, 1/2 tsp pepper; roll chicken in it.
• Heat 1/2 cup butter in large skillet. Lightly brown chicken breasts.
• Add sliced mushrooms. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Transfer chicken and mushrooms to a bowl/plate then clean pan of all butter.
• Return chicken and mushrooms to pan and add cream and simmer over low heat 10 minutes.
• Transfer breasts to warm serving dish.
• SAUCE: Add to liquid in skillet- 1/4 cup champagne. Bring to rapid boil and cook until sauce is reduced to a creamy consistency.
• If you want sauce to thicken, add 1-2 tablespooons cornstarch that has been mixed with a little of the sauce.
• Serve on heated plates.

Steps:

• Heat butter in a medium skillet. Add chicken, and brown on both sides, about 6--10 minutes per side. Remove chicken to a 1-quart baking dish, reserving drippings in skillet.
• Add mushrooms to skillet, and sauté; remove mushrooms, and set aside.
• Stir champagne into drippings in skillet; simmer until thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally. Pour over chicken; cover and bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until chicken is done.
• Remove chicken to platter, reserving liquid. Add sour cream, salt, and pepper to reserved liquid; whisk until smooth. Pour over chicken, top with mushrooms, and serve.

Steps:

• Flatten the chicken breasts. Combine the flour, salt, and pepper and dust breasts on both sides.
• Saute, in butter and oil for 5 minutes, shaking the pan to prevent sticking. Turn the chicken and add champagne. Cook for another 15 minutes until the chicken is done and champagne is reduced by half.
• Remove the chicken to heated platter and keep warm. Add the cream to the pan juices and cook until thickened. Add sauteed mushrooms desired.
• Pour sauce over chicken and serve.

Steps:

• *** See instructions at end if using the optional ingredients.
• Cut chicken into 1/4" wide slices.
• Melt the butter and olive oil in a large heavy skillet.
• Saute the chicken for 4 to 5 minutes.
• Remove the chicken and keep warm.
• Deglaze the pan with the champagne.
• Add the cream to the pan.
• Add the tarragon and reduce the sauce for two minutes.
• Put the chicken back into the pan and bring just to a simmer.
• Remove to serving platter.
• Serve hot with fresh vegetables or over rice or pasta. (I serve this over fettucini, or with a side dish of Fettucini Alfredo). *** Cut chicken breasts in half only.
• Place each half between sheets of waxed paper and pound with a meat tenderizer until about 1/8" thick.
• Saute shallots in butter until tender.
• Divide shallots equally between the breast halves, spreading evenly over each.
• Place one slice of prosciutto on each breast half, fold in half, and secure with toothpicks.
• Saute about 4 to 5 minutes on each side in the butter and olive oil listed in the original ingredients.
• Chicken is done when it springs back when lightly pressed with finger.
• Follow the balance of the instructions listed above for the sauce.